By Jessica Miller
The Salt Lake Tribune
FARMINGTON — Nathan Sloop, the man accused of contributing to his young stepson’s death, made his initial appearance Friday on a new charge alleging he assaulted a deputy at the Davis County jail and tried to bite off his thumb.
Dressed in a red jail jumpsuit, a seemingly agitated Sloop appeared in 2nd District Judge Michael Allphin’s courtroom Friday afternoon, where his attorney Richard Mauro asked for the new case to trail his existing case, where he is charged with aggravated murder, intentionally inflicting serious injury on a child, obstructing justice and abuse or desecration of a human body in the 2010 death of Ethan Stacy.
Sloop, 35, was charged on Wednesday with one count of aggravated assault by a prisoner, a second-degree felony. According to a probable cause statement, Sloop assaulted the deputy on Nov. 21 just after 1 p.m. after refusing an order to return to his cell.
Sloop is accused of punching the deputy in the face twice, then attempted to gouge out the deputy’s left eye with his thumb. A second deputy went to Sloop’s cell to assist, according to the probable cause, and tried to restrain Sloop.
But Sloop continued to strike the first deputy in the head, and then lunged up and bit into the deputy’s thumb, according to the probable cause statement.
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